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UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S

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Under the terms of the lease, the University has the option to buy this tract at any time before the expiration of the lease period in 1971 at a cost not to exceed $18,000. The United States Army Propagation Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research have indicated that the research program in radio direction-finding will be continued during the foreseeable future; the current contracts now total $360,000 per year and programs are proposed for a number of years to come. Therefore, the President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that these options be exercised at a total cost of $35,577.50 and that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute any notices or other documents they deem necessary or desirable in connection with securing title to the above-described properties. Funds are available from Contract Research Reserve. O n m o t i o n of M r . G r i m e s , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d b y the following vote: Aye, M r . Clement, M r . Grimes, M r . H a h n , M r . H u g h e s , M r . Pogue, M r . Steger, M r . S w a i n ; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Jones, Governor Ogilvie, M r . Page, D r . Weatherly. STATUS REPORT MARGARET H. AND WILLIAM E. LEVIS FACULTY CENTER, URBANA (40) It was reported to the Board of Trustees on March 19, 1969, that preliminary planning had been initiated on the Margaret H . and William E. Levis Faculty Center which is to be located east of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. At that time the submission of the required data to the State Board of Higher Education was authorized, requesting approval of the project as a "noninstructional facility." T h e project, approximating 20,000 gross square feet, is estimated to cost $2,000,000, exclusive of extension of utilities to the site. Mrs. Levis has offered to give the University of Illinois the sum of $1,000,000 for this project, which will require other contributions of approximately $1,000,000. Since the construction must proceed before all contributions are received in cash, the University of Illinois Foundation will be requested to secure a construction loan to be repaid by contributions. On March 20, 1968, the Board of Trustees approved in principle the exchange of certain Foundation-owned land, which is a part of the site of the proposed Faculty Center project, for land owned by the University, in anticipation that this project would materialize before capital funds for land acquisition were made available. Due to the need for the development of the program statement by faculty committees, the project was delayed. Assuming the Legislature will appropriate funds for land acquisition, it will no longer be necessary to exchange land as earlier proposed. When the appropriation is approved by the Seventy-sixth General Assembly, and the Governor, the Board will be requested to approve the purchase from the Foundation of the parcels needed for the site. Mrs. Levis has expressed the hope that construction can be started as soon as possible. Accordingly, the Foundation intends to employ H a r r y Weese & Associates, Chicago, for architectural services at a fee of 7 per cent plus reimbursements when approved by the University. This fee is based on the fee schedule for such projects and size established by the Central Illinois Chapter of the A.I.A. T h i s report w a s received for record. RESOLUTION CONCERNING STUDENT CONDUCT 1

President Hughes called the Board's attention to a resolution presented by Mr. Page on December 20, 1967, subsequently referred to the Committee on General Policy and tabled until April of 1969 with the expectation that by that time a general revision of the University's code of conduct for students might have been developed. H e recommended, following consultation with the President of the University, that the matter be deferred until various studies now underway at each campus,

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See Transactions of the Board of Trustees, Vol. 38, page 848.